According the article, a Pelosi-led House would quickly get to work on this agenda:
- Pay-as-you-go budgeting
- Adopt recommendations of the 9/11 Commission
- Increase the minimum wage to $7.25
- Broaden stem cell research allowed with federal money
- Cut the interest rate on student loans
- End tax giveaways to Big Oil
The Pelosi agenda is both welcomed, warranted and ambitious, but it leaves out one major point: the impeachment of President Bush.
What are the odds that this happens despite Pelosi's protestations the last few months? Extremely high I'd say.
What would be the advantage of Pelosi and the Democrats gleefully threatening neverending hearings into the dishonesty and graft of the Bush administration. One day before the election, talk of about catching those crooks in Washington seems like a waste of time and more of the same do-nothing Congress that so many Americans detest.
I'm in agreement, even if a majority of its constituents crave a "payback is a bitch" moment against the Bush administration, holding back would be for the better of the republic. But, that's today talking.
What if Pelosi takes over the House next year and hopefully the Senate and in the midst of pushing through their Democratic agenda find the foundation the Congress rotting far more than the previous owners let on. Do they let it go or proceed with finding the truth and hold the GOP to the light after six years of operating in the shadows?
This scenario is likely to happen because the modus operandi of the GOP is to hide and with a full majority for nearly six years accountability has never been on the table. Starting the morning of November 8th it will.
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